Re: problems booting 8.x kernel

2011-03-15 Thread Mike Scott
On 15/03/11 10:17, Ian Smith wrote: On Tue, 15 Mar 2011, Mike Scott wrote: > I think I'll have to give up because I'm out of ideas, settle for a linux > kernel on this particular target h/w, and just hope this issue doesn't > affect another machine I have which is due for imminent upgr

Re: problems booting 8.x kernel

2011-03-15 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 15 Mar 2011, Mike Scott wrote: > I think I'll have to give up because I'm out of ideas, settle for a linux > kernel on this particular target h/w, and just hope this issue doesn't > affect another machine I have which is due for imminent upgrade from 6.2 to > 8.x. Does it boot ok on

Re: problems booting 8.x kernel

2011-03-15 Thread Mike Scott
On 15/03/11 09:54, Mike Scott wrote: Sorry, a line or two 'got away from' that last message, so part won't make sense. Should be I've found the occasional similar comment on the web, such as http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?p=117767 That refers to a hang after 'flowtable cleaner'

Re: problems booting 8.x kernel

2011-03-15 Thread Mike Scott
On 14/03/11 18:48, Olivier Cochard-Labbé wrote: On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Mike Scott wrote: Basically, I'm finding that the 8.1 and 8.2 kernels hang on certain machines during bootup, specifically during device discover and module load. I've tried 8.2 off the current release CD, and al

Re: problems booting 8.x kernel

2011-03-14 Thread Olivier Cochard-Labbé
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Mike Scott wrote: > > Basically, I'm finding that the 8.1 and 8.2 kernels hang on certain machines > during bootup, specifically during device discover and module load. I've > tried 8.2 off the current release CD, and also 8.1 off the Debian kfreebsd > 6.0.0 distr

problems booting 8.x kernel

2011-03-14 Thread Mike Scott
(Apologies if this isn't the appropriate forum - I've tried on cubf.misc, where it was suggested I come here. More apologies as I'm not overly familiar with the bootup sequence, and have probably got some terms wrong.) Basically, I'm finding that the 8.1 and 8.2 kernels hang on certain machin